Bushfires at Christmas time – an Australian phenomenon
Christmas is coming up on us fast and our preparations are in full swing: planning menus, writing gift lists, decorating the tree, negotiating family dynamics – and, in Australia, making...
For the love of writing
Seven days of workshops, panel discussions and fabulous speakers is on offer from the Society of Women Writers Victoria’s literary festival ‘For the Love of Writing’ – including our own...
The past is always with us
In more proof that the past is always with us, the subject of The Sultan’s Daughter – Sayidda Salmé, aka Emily Reute – is at the centre of a controversy...
An actual, real-life, people in a room together, live launch!
The Sultan’s Daughter finally got the launch it deserved, by former Independent Member of Parliament for the electorate of Indi and all-round inspirational woman, Cathy McGowan. The book was launched...
Within the silences of history, fiction can manoeuvre
Sayidda Salmé – the Sultan’s daughter of Obiter's forthcoming novel by Jane Downing – first appeared within the covers of a book in her own lifetime. Memoirs of an Arabian Princess was...